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Development Schedule

Coming soon

Stage	Estimated date	Public	Released on	Offset
Alpha 1	2014/07/08	developers, packagers	2014/07/08	0
Unmaintained packages adoption campaign	ongoing / TBD	developers, packagers
Alpha 2	~~2014/08/04~~ Some people who have, so far, spent thousands of hours each on making and improving Mageia, need some time to regain strength! Hence the delay. Feel free to express your gratitude for all the good work they have done for free, by volunteering to help QA Team or any other team	developers, packagers	2014/08/13	+9
Versions freeze	2014/09/09
New Strings freeze	2014/09/09
Distro rebuild	2014/09/15
Beta 1	2014/10/14	developers, packagers	2014/11/11	+28
Artwork freeze	~~2014/10/19~~ new date: 2014/12/06
Translations freeze	~~2014/10/27~~ new date: 2014/12/06
Beta 2	~~2014/12/16~~ new date: 2015/01/13	developers, packagers, reviewers	2015/01/15	+2
Beta 3	2015/02/03 (Added after beta 2 release)	developers, packagers, reviewers	2015/02/13	+10
Releases freeze	2015/02/23
Release Candidate	~~2015/03/07~~When ready, new estimate around 2015/04/21	developers, packagers, reviewers	2015/04/26
~~Internal release~~	~~2015/01/23~~ (No longer planned)	~~QA, packagers~~
Final Release	When RC is stable enough	developers, anyone	2015/06/19	0